Still waiting for that elusive plugin that will make it simple to read a contact closure in Neobook. Take a USB cable, select a pair of wires, run them to both sides of the normally open contact. When it closes the plugin records it and who knows what we can do with it then. Don't need any analog data, just on or off.

Lots of possible applications.

Any takers?

Thanks

Don

'If you want to get a brontosaurus from 'a' to 'b' then you ride the dinosaur - you don't carry it!'

Hmmm never heard of a Super Port. Google says it's pretty fast. By combo what do you mean, it would access a RS232 cable and a USB cable?

As far as I'm concerned, getting signals into the pc that can be read by NB is what I'm after. The more signals and faster the better. I know I can connect a USB without modification. And most of my use would be from a laptop so not sure what I would need to do there to get a Super Hemi port. A desktop would be pretty easy to fix up.

Sounds great to me but what do I know. I'm In!

Just looked a bit more and perhaps you are referring to a usb-rs232 converter. Does that give more options for inputs?

Thanks Dave

Don

'If you want to get a brontosaurus from 'a' to 'b' then you ride the dinosaur - you don't carry it!'

Thanks for all the info. Good stuff. I messed with Arduino Uno about a year ago and got bit lost in the programming. Not that it is probably not easy but my old tired head needs some charging.

I still have it somewhere and think that type of interface would be great. What I do need however is something I can make things happen with my smartphone. I would imagine there are Arduino thingys that work that way also but I am not knowledgeable in that. I do know I can make it work with wifi relays and hence my request for simple contact closure reading. If I can get enough of them it would open a lot of possible things also. if contact 1 closes then this and if contact 1 and 3 closes than this etc. The more the merrier.

I think Raspberry Pi is doing something similar, and maybe some others as well. Good to hear from others on this.

I have always wanted an interface as you mentioned and still think a good idea. With the simplicity of NB and connections for I/O in the world, man it opens up lots of stuff. We could control the international space station with just a little more help.

Don

'If you want to get a brontosaurus from 'a' to 'b' then you ride the dinosaur - you don't carry it!'

I don't think there is anything called a "super port". I meant a "super plug-in" that would work with both RS232 and USB. I'm sure it could be done, but we would need to sell a number of copies to make it worthwhile.

I actually did find a super port for rs232 online. It seems to offer increased speed. Anyway, Not sure how to get you the info you need to proceed. I guess I can start a poll and see if we can get some takers. I don't know anything about your financials so I guess you would have to determine if it is worth while. Again, for me a simple contact input would be great, the more the better of course.

Don

'If you want to get a brontosaurus from 'a' to 'b' then you ride the dinosaur - you don't carry it!'

. The number of wires within the usb have no correlation on the number of usable switches you can have, these are all used for digital data transfer. You will still need a client device to do the communication with the host pc.

I would get your Arduino back out and do it via rs232. I mentioned to Dave that many devices are just USB to comm devices, If you connect your Arduino and then look into your device manager on the PC you will see the comm port used for communication.

I would be more than happy to help you pull the code together. I'm no Arduino expert but have had no problem using all the examples on the net and moving the code around.

I understand what you are saying. But I think you are thinking serial communication. I'm thinking parallel communication. Like in the old days we could do with the parallel printer ports like LPT2. That has gone away.

I'm thinking pretty basic. if you have two wires you put a voltage on 1 of them and wait for it to come through on the other one. When it does you have your signal.

I have got to have something that works with wifi so how will Arduino interface with that. Other than programming code that will work through the browser, I only know of wifi relays that will turn on and off a contact.

I could probably back that up to Arduino but that seems excessive. If NB could just read the hi and low of wires in usb or rs232 then it works for me.

I'll do some research on Arduino and Raspberry PI and see what I can find.

Thanks for you ideas and thoughts and offer of help. I may take you up on it yet.

Don

Don

'If you want to get a brontosaurus from 'a' to 'b' then you ride the dinosaur - you don't carry it!'